WO2008097149A1 - Parallel transmission of handover message - Google Patents

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WO2008097149A1
WO2008097149A1 PCT/SE2007/050080 SE2007050080W WO2008097149A1 WO 2008097149 A1 WO2008097149 A1 WO 2008097149A1 SE 2007050080 W SE2007050080 W SE 2007050080W WO 2008097149 A1 WO2008097149 A1 WO 2008097149A1
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  • the present invention relates to a method and a system for handling handover in a radio network system in particular a GSM radio system.
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communications
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communications
  • 2G second generation
  • GSM Global System for Mobile Communications
  • GPRS General Packet Radio Service
  • EDGE Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution
  • the downlink dual carrier GSM EDGE Radio Access Network makes it possible for the mobile station to receive data on two different frequencies simultaneously.
  • the reason for adding a new downlink carrier is to increase the peak throughput for Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS).
  • the second carrier enables the mobile station to receive twice as many time slots as with a conventional Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS) system.
  • the GSM standard is a cellular radio network standard. A cell is an area served by a base station to which a mobile station connects. When the mobile station travels outside the area served by a particular base station, the mobile station must be served by another base station serving another, adjacent cell. In order for the system to handle the transfer from one cell to another a handover procedure is defined for each GSM system.
  • the handover procedure is a critical phase for the end-user in a GSM network.
  • the handover procedure is used to control the mobile stations in a GSM network.
  • the handover procedure measures the signal strength of a current serving cell and at least one surrounding cell. The results of these measurements are then reported back to the network. If the current serving cell is determined to be inferior to another cell, the target cell, the network initiates a handover from the current serving cell to the target cell, which upon completion of the handover becomes the new serving cell.
  • the handover procedure is typically initiated when the signal strength in the serving cell is worse than that of another adjacent cell. At this time it is not uncommon that the quality on the speech channel has degraded and that there can be problems for a control signal indicating a change of cell to reach the mobile station. It is necessary for all signaling in a handover procedure to reach the designated mobile station in order for the connection to continue. If the mobile station has traveled out of range for the signaling from the serving cell the connection will be terminated and the call will be dropped once the mobile station travels from the serving cell and is out of reach for the base station of the serving cell. A lot of efforts are therefore spent in a radio network to ensure that this signaling is successful to as large extent as possible.
  • the handover procedure becomes even more critical in networks dimensioned for speech version 3.
  • the robustness of the speech and the associated control channels are unbalanced for this speech version. This will not result in any major problems as long as it is used to enhance the speech quality.
  • the likelihood of dropped calls due to signaling failure on the associated control channels is increased as described above.
  • there is a problem in existing GSM networks when the MS has moved too far into a target cell before the handover command is sent. In that case it might be very hard for the MS to successfully decode it, which in turn will lead to a call being dropped. This is especially a problem were low AMR modes are used to extend the service area for Circuit Switched (CS) speech.
  • CS Circuit Switched
  • the downlink dual link carrier introduced in release 7 of the 3GPP is advantageously employed as a second downlink carrier for transmission of a parallel handover command.
  • the handover procedure is thus extended for mobile stations that support dual carrier in downlink by sending the handover command on two different carriers.
  • the additional handover command sent on the second channel can advantageously be transmitted from the intended target cell or the serving cell. However, in some scenarios it might prove advantageous to transmit the additional handover command from a location other than the serving cell or the target cell, such an adjacent base station serving a cell other than the serving cell or the target cell.
  • the serving cell and target cell will simultaneously send the same handover command to the mobile station, but on different frequencies.
  • the difference in quality of the two channels can be rather large and the probability of a successful decoding is therefore increased substantially.
  • the mobile station In order for the transmission of parallel handover commands to be useful the mobile station needs to be enabled to simultaneously decode both handover commands. Thus, the mobile station needs to have knowledge of the channel used by the system for transmission of the second, additional handover command. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways.
  • the Base Station Subsystem provides the mobile station with information about the second handover signaling channel.
  • the mobile station receives a handover command on any of the downlink signaling channels it initiates a handover procedure in a conventional manner. There is no need to provide support for the Dual Carrier on the uplink.
  • the channel in the target cell that is used for sending the handover command does not need to be the same channel as the one specified in the handover command, i.e. the channel to which the mobile station is to be handed over to.
  • - Fig. 1 is a view illustrating handover in accordance with the invention
  • - Fig. 2 is a view illustrating handover in accordance with another embodiment of the invention
  • - Fig. 3 is a flow chart illustrating different steps performed when transmitting a handover command
  • Fig. 4 is a flow chart illustrating different steps performed when transmitting a handover command in accordance with another embodiment of the invention.
  • Fig.l a view illustrating transmission of a handover command in accordance with the present invention in a GSM radio system 100 is shown.
  • the GSM radio system comprises a number of cells each served by a base station as is well known in the art. For illustration purpose, only one cell 105 is shown in Fig.l.
  • a mobile station 103 being served by a base station in the cell 105 will at some point in time travel towards the boundary of the cell 105 which will be detected by the GSM system 100. Typically the detection is made by comparing the signal strength in the serving cell to that of other adjacent cells. Upon detection the base station subsystem will initiate a handover command.
  • the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on two different carriers (Cl and C2).
  • the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on a carrier C2 from the same location as the first Carrier (Cl), i.e. from the serving base station as shown in Fig.l.
  • FIG. 2 transmission in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention is illustrated.
  • a mobile station 103 being served by a base station in the cell 105 will at some point in time travel towards the boundary of the cell 105 which will be detected by the GSM system 100. Typically the detection is made by comparing the signal strength in the serving cell to that of other adjacent cells. Upon detection the base station subsystem will initiate a handover command.
  • the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on two different carriers (Cl and C2).
  • the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on a carrier C2 from the base station to which the mobile station is to be handed over to, i.e. from the target base station as shown in Fig.2.
  • the duplicated second handover command transmitted on the second carrier is transmitted from another than the base station of the serving cell or the base station of the target cell.
  • the additional handover command can then be transmitted from a radio transmitter covering the area where the mobile station is located and controlled by the radio system.
  • the radio transmitter used for such a purpose can for example be a base station of a cell other than the serving cell or the target cell or any other suitable radio transmitter.
  • the information relating to the additional channel could be distributed in a number of different ways.
  • the information can be transmitted directly at the call set-up or at establishment of the main signaling link. This is described in the flow chart in Fig. 3.
  • Fig. 3 a flow chart illustration steps performed in a GSM radio system designed to transmit the handover command in parallel on two different channels is shown.
  • the base station subsystem transmits a message including data defining the channel to be used as the second handover command channel to the mobile station.
  • the mobile station decodes the message and starts to monitor the assigned frequency in parallel with the frequency on which the call takes place, step 303.
  • the mobile station Upon detection of a handover command on either of the two frequencies the mobile station acknowledges the receipt of the handover command and initiates handover in accordance with the parameters provided by the handover command, step 305.
  • a new message on the Slow Associated Control Channel could be used to distribute the information about the second handover signaling channel in target cell.
  • This new message should preferably not be sent too often on the SACCH.
  • the message is only sent when the mobile station is determined to be close to the cell border.
  • One reason to chose the SACCH as the channel on which to send information relating to the additional channel is that the information that is sent there is not very time critical.
  • the information sent on this channel is system information and also information relating to which output power and timing advance that should be used for the uplink.
  • a flow chart illustration steps performed in a GSM radio system designed to transmit the handover command in parallel on two different channels in accordance with such an alternate procedure is shown.
  • the base station subsystem transmits conventional control signals to the mobile station.
  • the base station subsystem detects the mobile station is close to the border of the cell it transmits information regarding a second channel for the mobile station to monitor, step 403.
  • the mobile station decodes the message and starts to monitor the assigned frequency in parallel with the frequency on which the call takes place, step 405.
  • the mobile station Upon detection of a handover command on either of the two frequencies the mobile station acknowledges the receipt of the handover command and initiates handover in accordance with the parameters provided by the handover command, step 407. If at any time when the mobile station is in a mode where two channels are monitored simultaneously for handover commands, the base station detects that the mobile station has moved back towards the centre of the cell it can issue a command releasing the mobile from monitoring the second handover command channel.
  • the second handover signaling channel could either be allocated only for the mobile station involved in the enhanced handover procedure or alternative be a channel that is used by all mobile stations that are capable of employing the handover procedure as described herein.
  • a busy channel could be used and if the channel is busy with an ongoing speech connection a number of speech frames will be omitted in order to transmit the handover command.
  • speech frames will be omitted for another user when distributing handover command to the mobile station.

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Abstract

In a method and system handover commands to a mobile station supporting simultaneous reception on two different channels is transmitted both on the regular channel and on an additional channel. By supporting decoding of both handover commands in the mobile station the likelihood of a successful handover is greatly increased.

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Parallel transmission of handover message
TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a method and a system for handling handover in a radio network system in particular a GSM radio system.
BACKGROUND
GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is a standard for mobile telephony. GSM differs significantly from its predecessors in that both signaling and speech channels are digital, which means that it is seen as a second generation (2G) mobile phone system. GSM is an open standard which is developed by the 3GPP.
As the GSM standard continues to develop, it retains backward compatibility with the original GSM mobile telephones; for example, packet data capabilities were added in the Release '97 version of the standard, by means of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). Higher speed data transmission has also been introduced with Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) in the Release '99 version of the standard.
In release 7 of the 3GPP specifications a downlink dual carrier is introduced. The downlink dual carrier GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) makes it possible for the mobile station to receive data on two different frequencies simultaneously. The reason for adding a new downlink carrier is to increase the peak throughput for Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS). The second carrier enables the mobile station to receive twice as many time slots as with a conventional Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS) system. The GSM standard is a cellular radio network standard. A cell is an area served by a base station to which a mobile station connects. When the mobile station travels outside the area served by a particular base station, the mobile station must be served by another base station serving another, adjacent cell. In order for the system to handle the transfer from one cell to another a handover procedure is defined for each GSM system.
The handover procedure is a critical phase for the end-user in a GSM network. The handover procedure is used to control the mobile stations in a GSM network. The handover procedure measures the signal strength of a current serving cell and at least one surrounding cell. The results of these measurements are then reported back to the network. If the current serving cell is determined to be inferior to another cell, the target cell, the network initiates a handover from the current serving cell to the target cell, which upon completion of the handover becomes the new serving cell.
The handover procedure is typically initiated when the signal strength in the serving cell is worse than that of another adjacent cell. At this time it is not uncommon that the quality on the speech channel has degraded and that there can be problems for a control signal indicating a change of cell to reach the mobile station. It is necessary for all signaling in a handover procedure to reach the designated mobile station in order for the connection to continue. If the mobile station has traveled out of range for the signaling from the serving cell the connection will be terminated and the call will be dropped once the mobile station travels from the serving cell and is out of reach for the base station of the serving cell. A lot of efforts are therefore spent in a radio network to ensure that this signaling is successful to as large extent as possible.
The handover procedure becomes even more critical in networks dimensioned for speech version 3. The robustness of the speech and the associated control channels are unbalanced for this speech version. This will not result in any major problems as long as it is used to enhance the speech quality. However, if it is used to extend the service area for a cell the likelihood of dropped calls due to signaling failure on the associated control channels is increased as described above. Thus, there is a problem in existing GSM networks when the MS has moved too far into a target cell before the handover command is sent. In that case it might be very hard for the MS to successfully decode it, which in turn will lead to a call being dropped. This is especially a problem were low AMR modes are used to extend the service area for Circuit Switched (CS) speech.
Hence, there exist a need for a method and a system that is able to increase the robustness of the handover procedure in a GSM network. A more stable handover procedure would also make the frequency planning less critical in non-AMR networks.
SUMMARY
It is an object of the present invention to overcome or at least reduce some of the problems associated with existing handover procedures.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and a system that is capable of increasing the likelihood of a successful handover without introducing complex handover procedures such as soft handover and the like.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a handover procedure that enables the handover procedure to remain unchanged and at the same time increase the likelihood of a successful handover.
These objects and others are obtained by the method and system as set out in the appended claims. Thus, by transmitting the handover command to the mobile station both on the regular carrier and on an additional carrier and decoding both handover commands in the mobile station the likelihood of a successful handover is greatly increased. In particular the downlink dual link carrier introduced in release 7 of the 3GPP is advantageously employed as a second downlink carrier for transmission of a parallel handover command.
The handover procedure is thus extended for mobile stations that support dual carrier in downlink by sending the handover command on two different carriers. The additional handover command sent on the second channel can advantageously be transmitted from the intended target cell or the serving cell. However, in some scenarios it might prove advantageous to transmit the additional handover command from a location other than the serving cell or the target cell, such an adjacent base station serving a cell other than the serving cell or the target cell.
In a typical set-up the serving cell and target cell will simultaneously send the same handover command to the mobile station, but on different frequencies. The difference in quality of the two channels can be rather large and the probability of a successful decoding is therefore increased substantially.
In order for the transmission of parallel handover commands to be useful the mobile station needs to be enabled to simultaneously decode both handover commands. Thus, the mobile station needs to have knowledge of the channel used by the system for transmission of the second, additional handover command. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways.
Thus, prior to the handover the Base Station Subsystem (BSS) provides the mobile station with information about the second handover signaling channel. When the mobile station receives a handover command on any of the downlink signaling channels it initiates a handover procedure in a conventional manner. There is no need to provide support for the Dual Carrier on the uplink. The channel in the target cell that is used for sending the handover command does not need to be the same channel as the one specified in the handover command, i.e. the channel to which the mobile station is to be handed over to.
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The present invention will now be described in more detail by way of non-limiting examples and with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
- Fig. 1 is a view illustrating handover in accordance with the invention, - Fig. 2 is a view illustrating handover in accordance with another embodiment of the invention, - Fig. 3 is a flow chart illustrating different steps performed when transmitting a handover command, and
- Fig. 4 is a flow chart illustrating different steps performed when transmitting a handover command in accordance with another embodiment of the invention.
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In Fig.l a view illustrating transmission of a handover command in accordance with the present invention in a GSM radio system 100 is shown. The GSM radio system comprises a number of cells each served by a base station as is well known in the art. For illustration purpose, only one cell 105 is shown in Fig.l.
A mobile station 103 being served by a base station in the cell 105 will at some point in time travel towards the boundary of the cell 105 which will be detected by the GSM system 100. Typically the detection is made by comparing the signal strength in the serving cell to that of other adjacent cells. Upon detection the base station subsystem will initiate a handover command.
In order to increase the likelihood of a successful reception and decoding of the handover command the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on two different carriers (Cl and C2). In accordance with a first preferred embodiment the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on a carrier C2 from the same location as the first Carrier (Cl), i.e. from the serving base station as shown in Fig.l.
In Fig. 2 transmission in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention is illustrated. A mobile station 103 being served by a base station in the cell 105 will at some point in time travel towards the boundary of the cell 105 which will be detected by the GSM system 100. Typically the detection is made by comparing the signal strength in the serving cell to that of other adjacent cells. Upon detection the base station subsystem will initiate a handover command.
In order to increase the likelihood of a successful reception and decoding of the handover command the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on two different carriers (Cl and C2). In accordance with a second preferred embodiment the base station subsystem will transmit the handover command on a carrier C2 from the base station to which the mobile station is to be handed over to, i.e. from the target base station as shown in Fig.2.
In yet another, third embodiment of the present invention the duplicated second handover command transmitted on the second carrier is transmitted from another than the base station of the serving cell or the base station of the target cell. The additional handover command can then be transmitted from a radio transmitter covering the area where the mobile station is located and controlled by the radio system. The radio transmitter used for such a purpose can for example be a base station of a cell other than the serving cell or the target cell or any other suitable radio transmitter.
In order for the mobile station to have information on which radio channel the additional handover command is to be transmitted, such information must be provided to the mobile station.
The information relating to the additional channel could be distributed in a number of different ways. For example the information can be transmitted directly at the call set-up or at establishment of the main signaling link. This is described in the flow chart in Fig. 3.
In Fig. 3 a flow chart illustration steps performed in a GSM radio system designed to transmit the handover command in parallel on two different channels is shown. First in a step 301, at call set-up, the base station subsystem transmits a message including data defining the channel to be used as the second handover command channel to the mobile station. Next, the mobile station decodes the message and starts to monitor the assigned frequency in parallel with the frequency on which the call takes place, step 303.
Upon detection of a handover command on either of the two frequencies the mobile station acknowledges the receipt of the handover command and initiates handover in accordance with the parameters provided by the handover command, step 305. In another example, a new message on the Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) could be used to distribute the information about the second handover signaling channel in target cell. This new message should preferably not be sent too often on the SACCH. In a preferred embodiment the message is only sent when the mobile station is determined to be close to the cell border. One reason to chose the SACCH as the channel on which to send information relating to the additional channel is that the information that is sent there is not very time critical. Thus, the information sent on this channel is system information and also information relating to which output power and timing advance that should be used for the uplink.
In Fig. 4, a flow chart illustration steps performed in a GSM radio system designed to transmit the handover command in parallel on two different channels in accordance with such an alternate procedure is shown. First in a step 401, at call set-up, the base station subsystem transmits conventional control signals to the mobile station. When the base station subsystem detects the mobile station is close to the border of the cell it transmits information regarding a second channel for the mobile station to monitor, step 403. Next, the mobile station decodes the message and starts to monitor the assigned frequency in parallel with the frequency on which the call takes place, step 405.
Upon detection of a handover command on either of the two frequencies the mobile station acknowledges the receipt of the handover command and initiates handover in accordance with the parameters provided by the handover command, step 407. If at any time when the mobile station is in a mode where two channels are monitored simultaneously for handover commands, the base station detects that the mobile station has moved back towards the centre of the cell it can issue a command releasing the mobile from monitoring the second handover command channel.
Furthermore, the second handover signaling channel could either be allocated only for the mobile station involved in the enhanced handover procedure or alternative be a channel that is used by all mobile stations that are capable of employing the handover procedure as described herein. Alternatively a busy channel could be used and if the channel is busy with an ongoing speech connection a number of speech frames will be omitted in order to transmit the handover command. Hence, in such an embodiment speech frames will be omitted for another user when distributing handover command to the mobile station.
By using the method and system as described herein and transmitting the handover command to a mobile station supporting simultaneous reception on two different channels both on the regular channel and on an additional channel and supporting decoding of both handover commands in the mobile station the likelihood of a successful handover is greatly increased.

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1. A method of transmitting a handover command to a mobile station (103) being served by a first base station of a serving cell of a GSM radio system (100), the method comprising the step of transmitting a handover command signal from the serving base station (101) to the mobile station (103) on a first carrier (Cl),char acterized by the additional step of initiating and transmitting the same handover command in the GSM radio system to the mobile station (103) on a second carrier (C2) in parallel to the transmission of the handover command transmitted on the first carrier (Cl).
2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the handover command transmitted on the second carrier is transmitted from the first base station (101).
3. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the handover command transmitted on the second carrier is transmitted from a base station (107) serving the cell to which the handover command indicates that the mobile station is to be continued to be served by, the target cell.
4. The method according to any of claims 1 - 3, characterized in that information about the second carrier is transmitted to the mobile station at call set-up or at establishment of the main signaling link.
5. The method according to any of claims 1 - 3, characterized in that information about the second carrier is transmitted to the mobile station when the mobile station is determined to be close to the border of the serving cell.
6. The method according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that information about the second carrier is transmitted to the mobile station on the Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH).
7. The method according to any of claims 1 - 6, characterized in that that the handover command transmitted on the second carrier is transmitted on a channel being busy with an ongoing speech connection by omitting a number of speech frames in order to transmit the handover command.
8. A base station subsystem of a GSM radio system (100) comprising means for transmitting a handover command to a mobile station (103) on a first carrier (Cl), via a first base station
(101), characterized by:
- means for initiating and transmitting the same handover command to the mobile station (103) on a second carrier (C2) in parallel to the transmission of the handover command transmitted on the first carrier (Cl).
9. The base station subsystem according to claim 8, characterized by:
- means for transmitting the handover command transmitted on the second carrier from the first base station (101).
10. The base station subsystem according to claim 8, characterized by:
- means for transmitting the handover command transmitted on the second carrier from a base station (107) serving the cell to which the handover command indicates that the mobile station is to be continued to be served by, the target cell.
11. The base station subsystem according to any of claim 8 or 9, characterized by:
- means for transmitting information about the second carrier to the mobile station at call set-up or at establishment of the main signaling link.
12. The base station subsystem according to any of claim 8 or 9, characterized by: - means for transmitting information about the second carrier is transmitted to the mobile station when the mobile station is determined to be close to the border of the serving cell.
13. The base station subsystem according to any of claim 11 or 12, characterized by:
- means for transmitting information about the second carrier to the mobile station on the Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH).
14. The base station subsystem according to any of claim 8 or 13, characterized by: - means for transmitting, the handover command transmitted on the second carrier on a channel being busy with an ongoing speech connection by omitting a number of speech frames in order to transmit the handover command.
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